Want to have your voice heard in a competition for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 2025 America’s People’s Choice Awards?   

The organization has carefully culled through scores of nominations by state DOT’s and has come up with 12 finalists, which are listed below. The final choice will be determined by online voting. Weighted by state population. The winner will be announced at the AASHTO 2025 Annual Meeting in a couple of months, and the winning Department will receive a $10,000 cash award to be used for a charity or transportation-related scholarship.

“The projects included in this year’s Top 12 show the wide range of work state DOTs tackle on a regular basis,” said AASHTO Executive Director Jim Tymon in an AASHTO release. “Whether they are striving to save lives by creating a new vulnerable road user assessment tool or restoring waterways through dredging projects to help local businesses stay in operation, states are delivering for communities. We want to highlight this work and showcase how state DOTs are positively impacting our lives, especially as we work toward legislation that will reauthorize the federal surface transportation programs.”

To vote for one of the following, click here:

The Top 12 projects in alphabetical order by state, with inks to their descriptions are:

• Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Fairfield Avenue Bridge

  
  

• Delaware Department of Transportation’s SR 299, SR 1 to Catherine Street Widening Project

  
  

• Florida Department of Transportation’s I-95 Express Phase 3

  
  

• Kansas Department of Transportation’s Safer Roads Ahead with the Kansas Vulnerable Road Users Safety Assessment Tool

  
  

• Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Right-sizing Roundabouts and Revitalization: Ashlan’s Winchester Avenue Streetscape Improvements.

  
  

• Idaho Transportation Department’s Robotics On Clearwater Bridge

  
  

• Illinois Department of Transportation’s Connecting Springfield – Jefferson and Madison Street Underpasses

  
  

• Missouri Department of Transportation’s Focus on Bridges

  
  

• New Jersey Department of Transportation’s Maintenance Dredging and Channel Improvements

  
  

• North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Complete 540, Phase 1

  
  

• North Dakota Department of Transportation’s Wrong Way Detection Project

  
  

• Utah Department of Transportation’s Provo 300 South Improved Project

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